Ta-Nehisi Coates, acclaimed writer, blogger and contributing editor for The Atlantic magazine, will discuss the Civil War and its legacy during a public lecture at Dickinson College in Carlisle at 7 p.m. on Feb. 14.

The Dickinson College campus in Carlisle.Dan Gleiter, The Patriot-News/2008

The speech, titled “The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation,” is free and open to the public.

Coates, who penned the critically acclaimed “The Beautiful Struggle,” an account of growing up in Baltimore amid drug abuse and violence, will discuss how the Civil War shaped the nation and changed its social structure and politics, according to Dickinson.

Coates also is a former writer for The Village Voice and contributor to Time Magazine, O, and The New York Times Magazine.

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